American politics

"Please send him to the July debate stage by donating $1 to the Mike Gravel campaign," Marianne Williamson said on Sunday.

"What we're going to do is I'm going to start showing some of these detention centers because — to the press — I want the press to go in and see them," Trump told reporters.

"All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world," Pelosi said, referring to the four freshman lawmakers. "But they didn't have any following. They're four people and that's how many votes they got."

Republican Senator John Kennedy strongly rebuked Ocasio-Cortez's comments about migrant detention centers. "Her hypocrisy is breathtaking," he said.

#IvankaResign—a hashtag which called on the first daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump to step down from her role—trended on Twitter Tuesday morning. By evening, conservatives had responded with their own: #AOCResign.

"If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes," she said.

"If you want a friend, be one. If you want to lose a friend ignore that person," former DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison said.

"Our border patrol system is broken. And part of the reason it stays broken is because it's kept secret. The American people must see what is being carried out in their name," Castro said on Twitter following the visit.

"I mean, [Kim] was lobbing missiles into the Sea of Japan just a few weeks ago and the president is going to talk to him? I mean, are you kidding me?" Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said.

The proposal comes amid reports of dire conditions at border detention centers, with one Buzzfeed article on Thursday quoting the children living who are, by all appearances, living in squalid conditions.

"Folks think they can get to the president through me because I work with the president a lot, talk to the president a lot," Matt Gaetz told Fox News' Martha MacCallum.

"Marianne Williamson is doing an incredible job for someone who is obviously digesting an edible on television," Pablo S. Torre tweeted.

Harris saw a 500 percent increase in searches in the second half of Thursday's debate.

"Marianne Williamson is the only candidate bold enough to propose a witchcraft based health care system," one user tweeted.

"I frankly don't care what president does it," the congresswoman said, when confronted with backlash after she employed the term to describe migrant detention facilities.

"Sartorial update: once we pass universal basic income, Andrew Yang can purchase a tie," Preet Bharara tweeted.

Video of the incident shows a cup tossed into the frame, although it's unclear if the drink spilled or hit the conservative lawmaker.

"Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11. That's why I and so many other people joined the military, to go after Al Qaeda. Not the Taliban," Gabbard explained.

Six people purchased $340 of soap, diapers, wipes and toys and drove to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas to deliver the items but were unable to do so.

"It could be that President Obama knows something because there is something going on in that brain of his," Trump said.

"B---h - I vacation in Cornville and my favorite restaurant is PF Chang's. Who exactly do you think you're talking about?" Meghan McCain tweeted.

Iran's U.N. envoy said new sanctions were "yet another indication that the U.S. has no respect for international law and order as well as the views of the overwhelming majority of the international community."

"She knows what she's doing, and she is a different form of Trump. 'I'm gonna say the outrageous; I'm gonna get the tweets, I'm gonna get the social media hits.' [Ocasio-Cortez] has some of the same tone deafness or at least tone awareness of what plays in the media."

"I never called the strike against Iran 'BACK,' as people are incorrectly reporting, I just stopped it from going forward at this time," Trump wrote on Twitter.

"I would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the [southern] border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection. They're young women, they, you know, try to come here - as you know, they are there by the thousands. The women have very little protection there; it would just be disrespectful."

Along with the announcement of Esper's nomination, the White House said it will appoint Pentagon comptroller David Norquist to become deputy Defense secretary. Army Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy will replace Esper as Army Secretary.

"Tonight the president is clearly giving the mullahs an opening to pick up the phone and come clean and end their hostile behavior," Hannity said.

"Opening an impeachment inquiry is exactly what we must do when the President obstructs justice, advises witnesses to ignore legal subpoenas, & more. Bye,"," the New York congresswoman said on Twitter.

"I want to make it clear that this has never been dealt with compassionately by Senator McConnell. He has always held out until the very last minute, and only then, under intense lobbying and public shaming, has he even deigned to move on it."

"The Devil never offered me anything, but now it's the Democrats dancing with him in their evil plot to subvert democracy and take down a president they simply hate."